Aziza Ahmed, Northeastern University School of Law
Professor Ahmed teaches reproductive and sexual health and rights, international health law, and property. Her research areas include health and law (international and domestic), human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Professor Ahmed′s scholarship is interdisciplinary, and often draws from both public health and legal methodologies and literature. Alongside her work on public health, Professor Ahmed also writes about the changing global landscape of Muslim minorities...
Read MoreElizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College
Elizabeth Bernstein, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, joined the faculty of Barnard in September, 2002. Her teaching includes such courses as Gender and Power in Transnational Perspective; The Sociology of Gender; and The Sociology of Sexuality. Professor Bernstein’s research and teaching focus on the sociology of gender and sexuality; the sociology of law; and contemporary social theory. Her current research explores the convergence of feminist, neoliberal, and...
Read MoreDenise Brennan, Georgetown University
Denise Brennan is a cultural anthropologist whose research is informed by three concerns: migration, gender and labor. While these topics may be pursued across disciplines, anthropologists’ ethnographic methods enable Dr. Brennan to analyze their local contexts as they connect to larger forces of change. Her research illuminates urgent human rights concerns such as trafficking, women’s poverty, and migrant labor exploitation. She is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International...
Read MoreFlorrie Burke, Freedom Network
Florrie Burke is a consultant on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery to both governmental and non governmental agencies. She is a founding member and currently a Co-Chair of the Freedom Network, serves as the Coordinator of the Freedom Network Training Institute and is on the Steering Committee of the NY Anti-Trafficking Network. She has done extensive training, speaking and consultation on Human Trafficking issues, trauma and torture both nationally and internationally. She has served as...
Read MoreSea-Ling Cheng, Wellesley College
Sea-Ling Cheng is an anthropologist whose current research focuses on issues of sexuality, prostitution, migration, trafficking, and human rights. She has conducted research in South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Before coming to Wellesley, she taught at the University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2002-2003. She first arrived in the US in 2003 to take up a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and...
Read MoreJanie Chuang, American University Washington College of Law
Janie Chuang is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law and a current Fellow of the Open Society Foundations. Professor Chuang teaches courses in international law, human trafficking, international commercial arbitration, and gender and labor migration. In her scholarship, Professor Chuang specializes in issues relating to gender and labor migration, specifically, trafficking in women. As an advisor on trafficking issues for the UN Office of the High...
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